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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. It is the Power of making Christians by the oPreaching of the Gospel, and Receiving them so made into Communion of Christ and his Church by Baptism, and feeding and guiding them by the same Word, and ⟨p. 204⟩communicating the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood in his Name, declaring Pardon and Life to the Penitent, and the contrary to the Impenitent, and applying this to the particular Persons of their own charge on just occasion, and so being the stated Judges who shall by them be received to Church Communion, or be rejected, and this as a presage of Christ's future Judgment.
Q. 28. But have not Pastors or Bishops, a power of constraint by the Sword, that is, by Corporal punishments or mulcts?